While exploring Burough Market in London, I was delighted to come across four lovely young women dressed in vintage white dresses, eating ice cream as the local shopkeeper looked on. Are they brides? Or bridesmaids. I don't know, but they are obviously enjoying a very special day.

Gentoo Penguin surfing an iceberg in Cierva Cove, Antarctic Peninsula. Cierva Cove lies on the south side of Cape Herschel, within Hughes Bay. It is named after Juan de la Cierva, the inventor of the autogiro (the precursor to the helicopter, first flown in 1923). This site is known for its collection of stunning icebergs and abundance of leopard seals. It is also home to Primavera, an Argentinian summer research station.

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This was taken on a road trip from Calgary to Vancouver Island and despite of the amazing things we saw along the way this was the highlight of the trip. In our whale watching tour was a professional photographer who said in 20 years of photographing whales she had never seen such an impressive breach by an Orca whale, a spontaneous moment.